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The Nuffield Oxford Hospitals Fund

The Nuffield Oxford Hospitals Fund (NOHF, formerly Oxford and District Hospitals Improvement and Development Fund) gives grants to a total of around £300,000 every year. The source of funds was a generous benefaction from Lord Nuffield in 1937 and NOHF is a registered charity, No. 212575. There is an annual cycle of grant applications, which must be submitted by the end of January each year.

Every application must demonstrate that it is for:

'the raising of the standard of the hospital or hospitals concerned in order to assist the development and carrying on of the Oxford University Medical School'.

NOHF is happy to receive applications for items of equipment or larger scale projects. In the past, grants have funded projects in many specialties at the Radcliffe Infirmary, John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Horton General Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the mental health hospitals, and have included:

an extension to William Osler House

manikins for the Resuscitation Department

multi-headed microscopes

books for the Cairns Library

equipment for seminar rooms

equipment for medical illustration

funds for the Oxfordshire Health Services Research Committee.

Applications are presented to the Trustees who meet in May or June each year. There are seven Trustees, including two doctors: Dr Anne Thomson, Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Mr Julian Britton, who worked at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust as Consultant Surgeon until his retirement a few years ago. The Chairman is Dr Anne Grocock. The Secretary is Richard Sonley, who works closely with the Medical Sciences Division.